At Stout we design, manufacture, and build machines for the agriculture industry. Our machines integrate artificial intelligence, machine vision and deep learning into smart agricultural tools.
We have an immediate opening for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team in Salinas, CA.
This is a multifunctional role in an exciting ag-tech company. The primary responsibility of the Lead DevOps Engineer is to develop and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure for data analytics applications, edge AI software, and provisioning new systems. You will utilize the Tools, platforms, and programming languages that are currently used at Stout, which include: SaltStack, Elastic, GitLab CI, Python, C/C++, and Javascript, with deployments on Azure, AWS, and mobile embedded systems.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Develop and maintain SaltStack configuration and YAML state files to configure and deploy applications and updates to cloud, on-prem, and mobile minions
- Develop and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines in GitLab CI
- Develop and maintain utilities for automated provisioning of new computer hardware in assembly line manufacturing
- Configure local and cloud computing hardware to support computational and data storage needs
- Maintain clear documentation to facilitate collaboration, troubleshooting, and future development
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
- 3+ years DevOps experience in a production environment
- Expert with Docker and at least one CI/CD tool
- Expert with Python
- Ability to communicate effectively and respond to questions, including over the phone, email and in person.
- Must have strong written, verbal interpersonal and cross-cultural skills to communicate and work with employees, team-members, supervisor, and management
Ideal Candidate:
- Promotes a positive Company image
- Must be able to maintain and abide by confidentiality.
- Must be honest, trustworthy, and respectful.
- Must be a team player with a can-do attitude and ability to collaborate effectively.
- Must work well with minimal supervision, take initiative, be a self-starter, have a sense of urgency and be process driven.
- Must prioritize workload, track, and follow-up with pending matters.
- Must be able to work independently and in a team environment, have strong analytical and organizational skills and great attention to detail.
- Must be self-motivated with a positive attitude
